However while one issue I immediately hit with this new version has been fixed, I have still yet to successfully connect to my blog with Open Live Writer. Fingers crossed….

So until the initial set of issues are worked out I’ll post articles and link to them by short manually entered blog entries here.

This post is mostly to point at a short article I’ve put together that brings to the attention of those who are interested the easy means to lessen the size of your Windows application’s executable file.

[Update 20150105: I've made some changes to the advice in the Trim the Fat article (clearly marked) after some input came through from a helpful reader.]

Before signing off I want to mention a couple of other posts that recently caught my eye:

Daniele Spinetti has very recently worked out the solution to a bug he encountered with Android background services in Delphi 10 Seattle, which meant that the TLocationSensor component doesn’t function when used in an Android service data module. The problem has been identified and described in his (very) recent post. This will be a useful addition to those trying to use Android services to accompany Jim McKeeth’s offerings:

Hello. What are you trying to achieve? Where is this code placed? In what way does it not work? Is there a relevance to you commenting on this post? Have you tried other things? What led you to try this code? I'm a little short on info here, even if I knew anything about the correct way to achieve whatever it is you are trying to achieve.

Hello Ali. JNI is the protocol used for native code (such as Delphi code) and Java code (such as Android code) to interact. There are many examples of using JNI around on the web. To be honest I don't really understand what you are looking to do - you;re not really giving any detail or good indication of what you are trying to achieve. For all the questions I asked just above, I'm not sure you;ve addressed many of them.